Grade 9 Poetic Devices

This sports team is a Cinderella story!

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

I remember the burning ember of late September.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

My love is like a red, red rose that is newly sprung in June.

• Juxtaposition

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

He was young and full of life while she counted her days.

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Contrast/Compare

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The trees danced in the wind

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of juxtaposition?

• A loud woman dating a loud man

• A quiet man dating a quieter woman

• A quiet man dating a loud woman

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

There is darkness and light within all of us.

• metaphor

• allusion

• juxtaposition

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.

• onomatopoiea

• assonance

• imagery

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

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CCSS.RL.7.4